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Merit The ethnology department of the university has completed its own African research community research center with a course originally designed for ipad and / or computer. The course consists of an interactive museum quality learning module that allows students to participate through visual, touch screen and electronic archive courses on the history of African-Americans. These modules are multilayered impact visual devices created by award winning filmmakers and graphic designers.

The center is fully ADA compliant, suitable for hearing impaired or visually impaired learners and can be accessed in Spanish.

At the African Center, there are experts in black family studies who train students on the process of genealogy two days a week. Students create families' history by visiting elderly, archiving studies, DNA testing, creating portfolios for improving academic abilities, and getting more information about family history.

The Center is a faculty member of the African American Studies Division and Dr. Siri Brown, former director of the National Research Division, will strive for vision, determination, and hard work and announce the Grand Open in March 2016 I am proud of it.

For more information on the center, please see the above video. For more information on the African-American Research Program (Japan's first), please visit www.merritt.edu/ wp / afram /.

In 1969 the University of Connecticut's Africa Research Center (ASRC) became the birthplace of African studies. At the same time, like San Francisco State University, it represents one of the first faculties in the country to be established in black studies. Since the birth of Cornell University, research fields in Africa are increasingly spreading and spreading, and it is the subject of academic curriculum and field in universities and universities throughout the country. In other words, many programs and departments are increasingly using the name "Africana" to show surplus problems related to investment in an interdisciplinary approach and views different from global view.

Current discussion on ethnicity provides a strong driving force for African studies. But beyond our present moment, Africa's research and related fields are beginning to criticize the most important social problems that may affect us, namely inequality. Black research has helped to open space for women's research and other identity-based projects and will continue to reveal the white privilege, the power of men and the myth of ethnocentricism. If done in a thoughtful and thoughtful way, African studies will also be effective against discrimination in gay people, competent race, and other forms of discrimination that could impair human diversity I have the ability to offer a challenge.